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BSA settles with Texas ex-Scout in sex abuse case

Associated Press
4:16 p.m. CDT August 21, 2014

RAYMOND, ME - MARCH 4: Plaques made by scouts since the 1950s hang in the dining hall of Camp Hinds, a Boy Scout camp in Raymond, that will get labor from National Guard units from Maine, Oregon and Michigan to erect and rehab buildings the scouts and staff will use. (Photo by John Patriquin/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)(Photo: Portland Press Herald Press Herald via Getty Images)

DALLAS (AP) -- Attorneys for the Boy Scouts of America have reached a settlement with a former San Antonio Scout who says he was abused by his adult leader.

Paul Mones, an attorney for the former Scout, says the settlement noted in court filings Wednesday does not require BSA to turn over any more of its so-called perversion files, which it kept on internal complaints of abuse.

The Scouts have faced years of lawsuits over the files, a major part of an abuse scandal in Scouting's ranks. A release of two decades of the files revealed hundreds of reports of sexual assault that were not turned over to law enforcement.